Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Feisal's new budget made inadequate provision for paying off retainers (and creditors), began denouncing Feisal as a penny pincher. King Saud himself took off on a tour among the desert sheiks, paying out blood money (sums Arabs owe for hurting, killing or maiming one another), passing out bank notes in the grand manner. This brought him squarely into conflict with Crown Prince Feisal, who is trying to substitute a modern budget for the royal private purse. Stiffly the King demanded fresh funds to replenish his overdraft, grown to a reported $30 million. As stiffly, Feisal refused...
...main artery, sometimes develops an aneurysm (like a ballooning blister on a bicycle's inner tube) that is often painful and disabling, and fatal when it bursts. Daringly, Dr. DeBakey began to cut out aneurysms and replace the damaged section of aorta with a graft from an artery bank. Gradually, with improved techniques and materials, he inched closer to the heart. By 1956, with specially knit synthetic tubing (better for many cases than artery-bank material), and an oxygenator fitted to an updated model of his 1932 pump, Dr. DeBakey was able to operate within a couple of inches...
When tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) Sculptor César saunters through his old Left Bank haunts these days, it is like a triumphal procession. Grave, bearded men bow in deference. Old friends cry out, "Congratulations!" Throwing himself into a chair at the Café Deux Magots, César snaps: "Your coffee's no good. Bring me hot chocolate." Waiters rush to carry out his bidding. Both they and César know that three years ago César would have been unable to pay for a single cup of coffee or chocolate...
...museums in which his work hangs. As a poet, Morris has the word from Ezra Pound ("In 50 years you will be a poet") and William Carlos Williams ("The total impression is of great beauty"). Three months ago he returned from Paris, where he had read poetry in Left Bank squares and cafes with Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, soon had all of Manhattan's beatniks digging it. Sample: "i want to hear once more the bedspring music of your kiss...
Nickels & Dimes. For all her clowning and her casualness. Shirley is as serious about money as the Bank of America. She is sure that Producer Wallis is exploiting her, and the idea is galling. ("I'm a very good business woman and I don't like to be hooked.") When Wallis paid her only $15,000 to play in Running, she almost backed out of the picture, refused to show up on the set until the day before shooting began. As Walk's tells it, he is entitled to a profit for taking a chance...